Month: September 2020

Mikael Madsen (Univ. of Copenhagen – Law) has posted Two Level Politics and the Backlash against International Courts: Evidence from the Politicisation of the European Court of Human Rights. Here’s the abstract: Are international institutions more prone to face backlash politics than domestic ones? Are international institutions easy targets for satisfying domestic political interests? Using…

The Asia-Pacific Journal of International Humanitarian Law has issued a call for submissions for its 2021 volume. The call is here. The deadeline is November 20, 2020.Article source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/RfRRI/~3/ayROlSEfBJM/call-for-submissions-asia-pacific.html

Global Law at Reading has announced the program for its 2020/21 Ghandhi Research Seminar Series. All seminars for the 2020/21 series will be delivered online and anyone is welcome to attend. For the invitation, please contact m.r.windsor@reading.ac.uk.Article source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/RfRRI/~3/PG1CuoB_IWg/global-law-at-reading-202021-ghandhi.html

Laurence Lustgarten has published Law and the Arms Trade: Weapons, Blood and Rules (Hart Publishing 2020). Here’s the abstract: This ground-breaking book offers an extensive legal analysis-grounded in public, EU, and international law-of arms trade regulation, integrated with insights drawn from international relations. The sale of weapons and related technologies is, globally, one of the…

Nico Krisch (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies) has posted Jurisdiction Unbound: Global Governance through Extraterritorial Business Regulation. Here’s the abstract: The international law of jurisdiction is faced with far-reaching changes in the context of a globalizing world, but its general orientation, centred on territoriality as the guiding principle, has remained stable for a…

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced an award of over $1.8 million to a company outsider, who expeditiously reported significant information to the Commission about ongoing securities law violations.  “Today’s award marks a… Article source: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-231

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V., a London-based public company that sells vehicles through its Michigan-based subsidiary, agreed to settle charges that it made misleading disclosures about an… Article source: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-230

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced October 26 as the date for its roundtable at which Commission staff and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) will discuss initial observations on Regulation Best Interest and… Article source: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-229

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a former finance manager at Amazon.com Inc. and two family members with insider trading in advance of Amazon earnings announcements between January 2016 and July 2018. According to the SEC’s… Article source: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-228